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Aug 30

House GOP plans to cut disaster aid fund likely won’t survive Harvey

By Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram, Associated Press

The disaster relief cut was proposed to finance President Trump's border wall well before Harvey. The politically bad optics are sure to lead lawmakers to do an about face, though that would create a money crunch in homeland security accounts.

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Jul 12

House Republicans seek cuts to foreign aid, support for U.S.-Mexico wall

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

In a flurry of summertime activity, congressional panels in the House and Senate released various spending bills to fund government agencies and departments in 2018.

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Jun 29

As deficit spikes, CBO says Congress must act on debt by October

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

A new government estimate says the drop-dead deadline for lawmakers to increase the government's borrowing limit is early to mid-October.

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Mar 16

Watch 3:38
Trump budget prizes military buildup and sweeping cuts

By PBS NewsHour

Unveiled today, President Trump's first federal budget embodies stark changes in federal spending priorities. The more-than $1.1 trillion proposal would cut funding to the EPA and the State Department by almost a third, while boosting spending for the Pentagon, Department…

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Dec 09

Senate passes stop-gap spending to avert government shutdown

By Andrew Taylor, Matthew Daly, Associated Press

The vote was 63-36 and sent the stop-gap spending bill to President Barack Obama for his signature ahead of a midnight deadline.

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Nov 22

Will Trump’s big agenda put GOP budget goals out of reach?

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

President-elect Donald Trump promises big tax cuts, a border wall and massive spending on infrastructure. That's a recipe for bigger deficits that fiscally minded conservative Republicans have railed against during President Barack Obama's tenure.

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Dec 11

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News Wrap: Congress buys time with short-term spending bill

By PBS NewsHour

In our news wrap Friday, Congress sent President Obama a short-term spending bill to fund agencies through the middle of next week, buying more time to negotiate a $1.1 trillion long-term tax and spending bill. Also, chemical industry giants DuPont…

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Jan 31

5 things to know about Obama’s new budget proposal

By Connie Cass, Associated Press

Here are five things to know before President Barack Obama's 2016 budget fully emerges Monday.

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Dec 08

Federal defense contractors find a new profitable business: Obamacare

By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News

In a way that is deeply changing Washington contracting, growth opportunities from the federal government have increasingly come not from war but from healing, an examination by Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post shows.

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Feb 21

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Popular Medicare Advantage plans could face cuts

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press

The Obama administration says cuts to Medicare Advantage plans are on the table for next year.

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